1/8/08

two tales of a city



Who could stand
in your fire
and not be consumed?

Your embers remained.
ButI bathed my heart in them
-it is pristine

like
the whites that the women
in Oaxaca washed
in ashes.

Do you remember?
They blinded us
in the sunlight

Now
your eyes
are black and mordicous
blinded by the smoke of
my delicious

and I have learned
to dance through flames.

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